5 FiveLetterWords
Accepted guess Not a possible answer F tier opener

LININ

LININ is accepted as a guess but is not on the solver's possible-answer list.

As an opener, it rules out about 81.1% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Noun

The network of viscous material in a cell's nucleus that connects the chromatin granules.

Noun

A bitter glucoside and purgative obtained from Linum catharticum.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

No

The solver does not currently treat this as a possible answer.

Past Wordle answer

Not used yet

No past answer date found.

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

How LININ performs as a guess

Wordle accepts LININ as a guess, but the solver does not list it as a possible answer.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 61.1% of games, misses completely in 38.9%, and leaves about 445 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #14,126 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.91 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

L___N L in the 1st position and N in the 5th position L__I_ L in the 1st position and I in the 4th position _I__N I in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

TARSE SOARE ROATE TRACE PORTE CARET
Words starting with L Words ending with N

First-turn measures

3.47 Entropy (bits)
445 Avg remaining
0.0% Exact match
81.1% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 6% of evaluated openers
2.48 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How LININ performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.91 Avg guesses
99.7% Win rate
0.76 Volatility
#14,126 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, LININ ranks #14,126 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
0
2 guesses
29
3 guesses
646
4 guesses
1,229
5 guesses
391
6 guesses
52
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

3/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
ILN

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
61%
Green tile
26%
All gray
39%

Feedback distribution

58 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

917
355
145
139
104
73
70
70
65
62
58
40
31
28
27
18
11
11
10
10
9
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8
7
7
7
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6
5
4

Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing LININ:

39% chance
Suggested:
TARSE
15% chance
Suggested:
SOARE
6% chance
Suggested:
ROATE

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

38.9% →
TARSE 6.39 bits
15.1% →
SOARE 5.28 bits
6.1% →
ROATE 5.21 bits
5.9% →
TRACE 5.24 bits
4.4% →
PORTE 4.55 bits
3.1% →
CARET 5.17 bits
3.0% →
SAWER 4.61 bits
3.0% →
TORSE 4.30 bits
2.8% →
COATE 4.71 bits
2.6% →
SALLE 4.06 bits

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for LININ; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

L1I1N1I1N1
Total: 5 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.